Ys VIII Lacrimosa of Dana PS4 & Vita

[Johnpv]

Has anyone played this yet? Videos of the graphics make me sulk, but I am curious to hear people's opinions

Not sure how much you trust this guys reviews but he already has a copy I guess:

I really need to become a youtuber just to get access to stuff earlier.  I don't even want it free, I just want it early lol.  There's a bunch of UK youtubers, and sites that have already gotten the SNES Classic, shit isn't out for a month and they already have it.

[Gredler]

Release date: Tuesday, September 12, 2017

So um, no, I haven't played it yet. Lols.

I saw some reviews and videos and wondered what people thought - I assumed some imported or perhaps had early access.

I wonder if they have an in house engine or if it's a licensed engine - and if they hire Jr artists or they are top heavy with vets who transitioned from 2d to 3d. The 2D stuff they've done has been awesome, it's their 3d that is so disappointing. The water is especially offensive - it looks like the distortion mesh is seperate in animation from the diffuse/detail and it looks SO WEIRD. I am surprised they even kept the distortion, it would look better with just the diffuse. Their polygon distribution is also all over the place. Excessively high poly assets next to angular rock face walls just looks really hodgepodge and broken.

[Gypsy]

Yeah. MoC looked like ass but I still loved it. Guessing this one will be a similar experience.

[NightWolve]

Good news, NIS approved a GOG version for those opposed to Steam system dependence (AKA DRM-light)!

https://www.gog.com/news/coming_soon_ys_viii_lacrimosa_of_dana

Also, to anyone interested, I'll begin running a raffle on Sept 12 when it goes on sale as a thank you to NIS America, Inc. 1st & 2nd place prize is GOG/Steam code for Ys 8 & Gurumin, and 3rd place winner just gets Gurumin. To enter, 200 post minimum for our veterans here.

[munchiaz]

Playing Ys IV right now. Getting ready for this

[Johnpv]

This was my first time ordering from NIS America's online store and they've already shipped my copy, should be here Monday.  Really looking forward to this one!

[Gypsy]

This was my first time ordering from NIS America's online store and they've already shipped my copy, should be here Monday.  Really looking forward to this one!

Been awhile since I've ordered from them but I remember getting many games from them before the release date. Even beat a few before they were officially out, heh.

[xelement5x]

This was my first time ordering from NIS America's online store and they've already shipped my copy, should be here Monday.  Really looking forward to this one!

NISA is pretty good when it comes to customer service and shipping, I've never had an issue with them.  Only thing is that until recently, for the last 1-2 years they have been putting out a lot I have no interest in.

[NightWolve]

Guess I can delay my raffle too (although I purchased my Limited Edition set) as NIS had to do a last minute delay and won't be releasing the PC versions today... It appears they don't yet know how much more time they need since they didn't offer a new release date...

The XXXSEED shill trollbags were all over this delay, like this fanhole, having a field day, as it gave 'em an opportunity to exploit it for PR purposes, their angle being that this wouldn't have happened under XXXSEED Games, and they're bad people for snatching the licensing away from them, yadda yadda, etc. You get the idea. One last bitter sour grapes gasp for those unable to accept the reality that they lost the Ys series, hopefully for good with any luck, but who knows...

Anyway, got 5 participants in my raffle so far, and I guess I should do the formal write-up/thread this week and get it going. Might as well.

[Necromancer]

And people like that are the first ones to tell you to "get over it".  f*ckin' hypocrites.

[turboswimbz]

And people like that are the first ones to tell you to "get over it".  f*ckin' hypocrites.

People like that are the reason I don't like "Gamers".  Nothing like calling out hate speech and then spouting off anti-woman propaganda within days of each other.   

[Gypsy]

Guess I can delay my raffle too (although I purchased my Limited Edition set) as NIS had to do a last minute delay and won't be releasing the PC versions today... It appears they don't yet know how much more time they need since they didn't offer a new release date...

The XXXSEED shill trollbags were all over this delay, like this fanhole, having a field day, as it gave 'em an opportunity to exploit it for PR purposes, their angle being that this wouldn't have happened under XXXSEED Games, and they're bad people for snatching the licensing away from them, yadda yadda, etc. You get the idea. One last bitter sour grapes gasp for those unable to accept the reality that they lost the Ys series, hopefully for good with any luck, but who knows...

Anyway, got 5 participants in my raffle so far, and I guess I should do the formal write-up/thread this week and get it going. Might as well.

Betrayed, lulz. It's BUSINESS.

[NightWolve]

And people like that are the first ones to tell you to "get over it".  f*ckin' hypocrites.

Yeah, and the difference being my situation can be solved tomorrow, but it's the stubbornness, arrogance of Ken Berry that prevents it. I've nothing to lose in speaking out regarding how they cheated me, I don't owe any of them silence or positive-only posts as they'd prefer...

Conversely, Ys 8 is in the hands of NIS, end of the story, nothing is changing that, BUT if you think about it, they wanna score points here to help XXXSEED when it comes to future Ys titles (Ys 9, 10, etc), so there's some "strategery" here by their loyalists. They want a narrative reported back to Falcom, "Look, NIS botched the Ys 8 release, this wouldn't have happened had you stuck with XXXSEED!!!"

The worst stuff is on the Steam forums, the "Go f#ck yourselves, NIS!", "Bring back XSEED!" etc. Here: http://steamcommunity.com/games/579180/announcements/detail/1441571497990560200

But that shit is 35 pages of 347 comments now, no use bothering. Some people were perfectly understandable, though, and I did learn that XXXSEED's Ys 7 Windows PC port is crash buggy, and received a patch yesterday to help... It brings up the point of putting a bit more time upfront for the 1st release, versus publishing the current build and patching it later which their buddies at XXXSEED in fact do...

Well, here's one I just found while typing this post:

You have got to be f*cking kidding me.

"Thank you for your time, support, and patience with this matter."

Literally no one has any of those when you come out with this shit less than 24 hours of the planned release date.

Go f*ck yourself. Give future ports to XSEED, you don't deserve to touch falcom's amazing work.

Awww, poor fella. Thing is, you don't know if this is a lost customer genuinely upset about a delay or just a shill who didn't care to buy it anyway, but decided to troll them to score points, etc. XXXSEED shills DID threaten to pirate the NIS release out of "loyalty."

The XXXSEED shill trollbags were all over this delay, like this fanhole, having a field day, as it gave 'em an opportunity to exploit it for PR purposes, their angle being that this wouldn't have happened under XXXSEED Games, and they're bad people for snatching the licensing away from them, yadda yadda, etc. You get the idea. One last bitter sour grapes gasp for those unable to accept the reality that they lost the Ys series, hopefully for good with any luck, but who knows...

Betrayed, lulz. It's BUSINESS.

Basically.



Anyway, one of the voice actors is also running a raffle giveway of the Limited Edition set for PS4 and the Vita, so I wanted to share the links in case any of you are interested as I'm only offering the standard digital-only Windows PC versions via GOG (which most would prefer I imagine, but I can do Steam if winner prefers).

For you PS4 owners:
https://twitter.com/sonicmega/status/908027529260232704

For you Sony Vita owners:
https://twitter.com/sonicmega/status/908026549772853248



Ah shit, hurry if you want, he closes his contest tonight at midnight! Awfully too quick!

To enter, you must Comment to answer the question AND RETWEET! That's it.

[Necromancer]

I don't mind them delaying the PC release rather than shipping broken junk and using paying customers as beta testers, but it's bullshit that they waited hours before launch to pull the plug.  They had to have known weeks in advance that it wasn't ready, so they should've said something then and let pre-order customers decide for themselves if they'd rather have a PS4/Vita copy or wait.

[NightWolve]

Yeah, I agree, the dev team should've been able to see at least say a week before launch that they had underestimated the time needed for a competent version 1.00 release. Unless they suddenly discovered something truly egregious and what not, but yeah, it looks bad, obviously, it's just that I'm not having an emotional reaction to where I feel I wanna rip their heads off about it. We understand why the wandering XXXSEED trollbags are doing it though on their Twitter & Steam presence, heh heh. Rrriiiiiiddddddeeerrrs gonna rrrrriiiidddeeee after all...

and using paying customers as beta testers,

I would've tried to apply here for beta testing, but I learned about it too late. You would've gotten a standard Steam copy free, a $60 value, so only problem I see there is they started that too late.